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“we are all beautiful even as we are all part of the problem, and that to be a part of the problem is to be human”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“My point is, there’s always something. I think, as a species, we have a desire to believe that we’re living at the climax of the story. It’s a kind of narcissism. We want to believe that we’re uniquely important, that we’re living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of false alarms, now is finally the worst that it’s ever been, that finally we have reached the end of the world.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“He wanted too much of one feeling—and I guess his heart gave out because of it. I don’t
think we’re made to hold too much of any one thing.”
― Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness

“The world as it is is enough.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land